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From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	Miguel Gaio <miguel.gaio@efixo.com>,
	Juhos Gabor <juhosg@openwrt.org>,
	dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] GPIO: add support for 74HC164 serial-in/parallel-out 8-bit shift register
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:17:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008311017.30445.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <887649.75421.qm@web180316.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Hi David,

On Tuesday 31 August 2010 01:43:04 David Brownell wrote:
> generic to all
> 
> > 74HC164 chips
> 
> Not just HC-series logic, also HCT, AC, etc (as
> I noted previously).
> 
> I'm glad you took NXP (one of the N vendors)
> out of the name, but I think you should also
>  take the logic series out; "74x164 might be sufficiently generic.

Allright, I will respin with those changes. Note that I chose to prefix the 
data structures with gen_ (for obvious C language reasons), I hope this is 
fine.

>            
> 
> > pdata->gpio_pin_clk, err);
> 
> I'm a bit puzzled why you don't just hook the
> chip up using standard SPI signals... ISTR they
> matched up directly to what the chip needs, so
> no GPIOs were needed for interface glue.

The board this driver is being used on had no SPI signals left I think, so it 
was hooked up on separate GPIO lines (which cannot be muxed to the GPIO pad).
--
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-28 23:18 [PATCH] GPIO: add support for NXP 74HC164 GPIO expander David Brownell
2010-08-29 10:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2010-08-29 15:37   ` [PATCH v2] GPIO: add support for 74HC164 serial-in/parallel-out 8-bit shift register Florian Fainelli
2010-08-30 23:43     ` David Brownell
2010-08-31  8:17       ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2010-08-31 10:44         ` [PATCH v3] GPIO: add support for 74x164 " Florian Fainelli
2010-09-01  7:25           ` Florian Fainelli
2010-09-01  9:37           ` [PATCH v4] " Florian Fainelli
2010-09-07  0:41             ` David Brownell

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